RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1880-1881]. Draft of Eathworms, folio 11. SCRC-UCL-Box1Folder2[.1]. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Joseph Halle Schaffner Collection in the History of Science, [Box 1, Folder 2], Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library. Reproduced with permission of William Huxley Darwin.
This draft fragment is accompanied by a letter from George Darwin to "Fanny," 17 December 1893:
"My dear Fanny, / The enclosed piece of the M.S. of my father's work on Earthworms, which has been accidentally preserved —for he habitually destroyed his M.S.S when the work was in type. My brother Frank played the bassoon to the Earthworms in the dark — which has its comic side.— / Yours very sincerely / GH Darwin"
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Worms are not only destitute of the sense of sight, but also of that of hearing. Those which were kept in pots were indifferent to all noises, the shrillest whistle & note on the bassoon as low as . Morren suspects (ibid 124) that they have the power of smell, but he advances no evidence. Those which I kept were not
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Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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